Tongues Untied

Marlon Riggs, with the help of other gay Black males, especially poet Kent Hemphill, remembers Black males loving Black males like a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill saying his poetry, Riggs telling the storyline of his becoming an adult, moments of males in social sexual intercourse and dance, as well as other comic riffs, including a vacation to the "Institute of Snap!thology," where males take training in how you can snap their fingers: the sling snap, the purpose snap, the diva snap. The film shuts with obituaries for sufferers of Helps and archival footage from the civil privileges movement placed alongside footage of Black males marching inside a gay pride parade.

Secret Circle Taps Chris Zylka Because the Witchy New Bad Boy

Chris Zylka Chris Zylka is going to get ended within the Secret Circle's coven, TVGuide.com has learned. The Key Circle: No crossovers using the Vampire Journals In line with the books by L.J. Cruz, the approaching series focuses on orphaned Cassie (Britt Robertson), who returns to her family's home town to uncover she's an associate of the covert coven - including Phoebe Tonkin's Faye and Thomas Dekker's Adam. Zykla will have Billy, a chiseled and charming neighbor of Cassie, who also offers an intimate history with Faye and it is quite the foil to Adam. Exclusive: The Key Circle taps Logan Browning Zylka, whose credits include 10 A Few Things I Hate In Regards To You and Zeke and Luther, will first come in the Episode 6 from the newcomer series, executive-created through the Vampire Diaries' Kevin Williamson. The Key Circle premieres Thursday, Sept. 15 at 9/8c about the CW.

Kudos kills off 'Spooks'

LONDON -- Brit spy skein "Spooks," known as "MI5" in the U.S., will exit this fall following the end of its 10th series. Spooks" bowed on local web BBC1 in 2002 and has since aired in more than 200 territories. In the U.S, it has played on BBC America, PBS and A&E. Show was hailed as the first of a new generation of U.K. TV dramas to deliberately copy the slick, almost cinematic-style of U.S. crime shows. It feels like now is the time for 'Spooks' to bow out and make way for new spy dramas that reflect the changing world around us," said Jane Featherstone, chief exec of Kudos Film & Television, the shingle which created the drama. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Venice devotes a day to Ray

Nicholas Ray, left, is interviewed at the 16th International Venice Film Festival in 1957. The Venice Film Festival will honor "Rebel Without a Cause" helmer Nicholas Ray with a day dedicated to his work, including the world preem of a new version of his cult 1976 pic, "We Can't Go Home Again," on Sept. 4.The Lido announced the tribute, which also includes a new documentary and a panel discussion, on Sunday -- the centennial of the Hollywood maverick's birth."We Can't Go Home Again," Ray's final work, will be presented by his widow, Susan Ray, and director-thesp James Franco, whose Sal Mineo biopic "Sal" is unspooling in the Venice Horizons section.Restoration and reconstruction of the experimental pic was supervised by Susan Ray and the Nicholas Ray Foundation, with assistance from the Eye Film Institute Netherlands, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Film Archive, and with the support of Gucci, Martin Scorsese's The Film Foundation, the Cinmathque Franaise and Italy's RAI Cinema.Susan Ray's tribute docu "Don't Expect Too Much," about the making of the pic, will world preem.Spanish helmer Victor Erice, author of a book about Ray, U.S. artist-helmer Douglas Gordon and Henry Hopper, whose father, Dennis Hopper, starred in "Rebel Without a Cause," will be among members of a panel discussion dedicated to the helmer.Venice runs Aug. 31 to Sept. 10. Contact Nick Vivarelli at nvivarelli@gmail.com

Kathryn Kranhold to Disney

Kathryn Kranhold has joined the Walt Disney Co. as senior VP, corporate communications. Kranhold will help develop the Mouse House's communications strategies for financial reporting, legal matters, corporate reputation management and executive communications, working closely with Disney's parks and resorts, media networks, consumer products, film studio and interactive media divisions. She reports to Zenia Mucha, exec VP of corporate communications. "Kathryn's professional experiences in both communications and journalism make her an excellent addition to our team," Mucha said. "Her understanding of complex companies, issues and industries will serve Disney and its key stakeholders and audiences well." Kranhold was most recently at the Brunswick Group, repping clients in crisis, litigation and financial communications matters, and at Sard Verbinnen & Co. before that. From 1996-2008, she was a writer for the Wall Street Journal, covering the finance, law, advertising, energy and health-care beats. She was also the paper's public utilities reporter during the late 1990s. She began her journalism career with the Hartford Courant. Contact Marc Graser at marc.graser@variety.com